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| John Shriver-Blake / Google Fiber Blog: |
Google announces Fiber Phone, a $10/month Google Voice-like home telephone service with unlimited local and nationwide calling, coming to Fiber cities — Introducing Fiber Phone — Whether it's calling mom or ordering take-out, we rely on our phones to help reach the people and things that matter.
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram increases video length limit for users from 15 seconds up to 60 seconds — Coming Soon: Longer Video on Instagram … We want to bring you fun, flexible and creative ways to create and watch video on Instagram. As part of our continued commitment, you'll soon have the flexibility …
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Sources: Spotify raises $1B in convertible debt, led by TPG and Dragoneer — Spotify Raises $1 Billion in Debt Financing — TPG and Dragoneer Investment Group lead the Spotify debt deal — Music-streaming site Spotify AB has raised $1 billion in convertible debt from investors …
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| Greg Duffy: |
Dropcam founder Greg Duffy defends his former team after slight by Tony Fadell, assails Fadell's management style and accomplishments — The Dropcam Team — You may have seen Reed Albergotti's recent article. In it, Tony Fadell says “a lot of the employees were not as good as we hoped …
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Acer launches 14-inch Chromebook with an all-aluminum chassis and 12 hours of battery life for $299.99 — Acer's new, premium Chromebook offers up to 14 hours of battery life — Acer's first all-aluminum Chrome OS notebook features a 14-inch IPS display.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Waze rolling out excessive-speed alerts in 16 countries excluding US, UK, Canada, and Australia, will be available globally “soon” — Waze rolls out speed alerts to tell you when you're driving too fast — Google-owned GPS driving app Waze is making it easier to avoid speeding tickets … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat's “Chat 2.0” update adds auto-advancing stories, stickers, video/audio notes and calls, and more — Snapchat seamlessly combines video, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Chat 2.0” — Say what you want, how you want. That's how Snapchat's reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Chat 2.0 …
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| Todd Kloots / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter now lets users add descriptive text to images in its mobile apps to improve accessibility — Accessible images for everyone — Photos have been at the center of some of the biggest moments on Twitter. As a core part of the Twitter experience, it's important that images shared … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nintendo's first smartphone app, Miitomo, arrives in the U.S. and other markets this Thursday — Nintendo's first smartphone application, “Miitomo,” now has a U.S. launch date: March 31st. In addition, the company says it will also be available in several other countries at the same time.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple acknowledges iOS 9 crashing bugs when tapping links, fix coming ‘soon’ with a software update — Since posting our original story, we have heard from a lot of readers that are affected by iOS 9 crashes or app hangs when tapping links, spanning multiple iOS versions (not just 9.3) and devices.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud launches SoundCloud Go music subscription service for $9.99/month in US — It's Go time for SoundCloud: $9.99 tier aims to rival Spotify with millions of premium music tracks — SoundCloud is often billed as the “YouTube for audio” because of its huge trove of user-generated music …
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See also Mediagazer| Dan Rys / Billboard: |
Tidal claims 3M paying global subs, with 1.35M on the hi-fidelity $20/month tier, and Kanye West's last album surpassed 250M streams within 10 days of debut — Tidal Claims Three Million Global Subscribers, Finally Releases Kanye's ‘Pablo’ Stream Numbers — EMAIL ME
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Genius adds “report abuse” button and says the web annotation tool does not enable abuse, in response to controversy and letter from US Rep. Katherine Clark — Genius responds to Congresswoman Katherine Clark's letter on preventing abuse — Over the past few days … Sponsor Posts
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